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She knows new gene therapies may provide long-term relief to some of the 100,000 Americans like her who suffer from sickle cell disease. But she's holding off trying one. "It is so new ...

its care long suffused with racism and stigma. “There’s a lot of people in the sickle cell warrior community where they felt like, historically, they’ve been guinea pigs,” said Habib.

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Because sickle cell disease isn’t as progressive a disease as others that have gene therapies available, there isn’t as much urgency to start on these expensive therapies, said Kevin Niehoff ...

So when her granddaughter, Alexandria “Skye” Brown was born with sickle cell anemia ... no swimming, and had a long list of things that Skye can’t do,” Marion said.

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